Why teams winning a penalty shootout at a tournament are at a disadvantage in the next shootout and the neuroscientists trying to help overcome the problem.
If Croatia or Morocco were to take their World Cup quarter-finals to a penalty shootout then expect to hear that it would favour them because of their record. But history suggests that the opposite is true for teams involved in a second tournament shootout.
Look at the penalty shootouts at the men’s World Cup, European Championship, Africa Cup of Nations and Copa America in the past decade. Nine of the 11 teams that had already won a shootout at the tournament lost the next one when facing a team in their first shootout.
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